Bottom line - your crypto is safe. It is never "inside" of MEW. MEW or metamask or mycrypto are merely interfaces to interact within the ethereum virtual machine (blockchain). You will likely be able to use either of these services in the future. MEW looks to be functioning normally right now, but I've not had to use it yet since this divorce.

Bottom line - your crypto is safe. It is never "inside" of MEW. MEW or metamask or mycrypto are merely interfaces to interact within the ethereum virtual machine (blockchain). You will likely be able to use either of these services in the future. MEW looks to be functioning normally right now, but I've not had to use it yet since this divorce.

Update on this from Chris Coney:

I read up on this.. I'll follow Taylor to mycrypto. She's a smart woman and will continue to advance the project.

So bottom line, is MEW is an ether wallet that isn't any better than the Pokeman represented by the same name?

“Rationality belongs to the cool observer, but because of the stupidity of the average man, he follows not reason, but faith, and the naive faith requires necessary illusion and emotionally potent oversimplifications which are provided by the myth-maker to keep ordinary person on course.”

Brick's wrote:So bottom line, is MEW is an ether wallet that isn't any better than the Pokeman represented by the same name?

Not sure about Pokeman.. but MEW will become stagnant without Taylor. She's the lead developer for myetherwallet. So all new features, will likely skip myetherwallet and go to mycrypto where she can turn it into a proper company and employ staff and raise funds to build a core business in the ecosystem. MEW, will likely fade without development.

Cryptocurrencies are a nascent asset class and could fall violently at any time, the founder of blockchain network Ethereum warned on Saturday.

"Reminder: cryptocurrencies are still a new and hyper-volatile asset class, and could drop to near-zero at any time," Vitalik Buterin said on Twitter. "Don't put in more money than you can afford to lose."

Buterin added: "If you're trying to figure out where to store your life savings, traditional assets are still your safest bet."

Vitalik's advice, "Don't put in more money than you can afford to lose," has been around since mankind has taken to speculating on non-guaranteed performance, such as precious metal, stocks, commodities and now crypto currencies. Woolly mammoth races, perhaps, gave the saying its start.

People lost their shirts in the Great Depression, the Great Recession, the 2011 silver crash, the 2016 presidential race, the 2018 Super Bowl. Don't bet more than you can afford to lose. A good general rule of thumb that of course includes crypto.

Definitely wants to break on the higher side, but not enough to push it. If it doesn't break this, its pretty much over for the next few months. So many retests but haven't been able to break on the upside.

Definitely wants to break on the higher side, but not enough to push it. If it doesn't break this, its pretty much over for the next few months. So many retests but haven't been able to break on the upside.

ETH and BTC are right on the cusp of breaking out, we've been here before lol. One of these days Alice! To the MOON!

Bitcoin started out with a limit of 21 million bitcoins by design of the protocol thanks to Satoshi. Ethereum is open-ended on its emission schedule which gave many purists pause. I've always wondered how this would be handled eventually. Vitalik wants to cap the issuance and switch from PoW to PoS. It will be interesting to see if/how this happens while still maintaining some level of decentralization.

SilverDoge wrote:Bitcoin started out with a limit of 21 million bitcoins by design of the protocol thanks to Satoshi. Ethereum is open-ended on its emission schedule which gave many purists pause. I've always wondered how this would be handled eventually. Vitalik wants to cap the issuance and switch from PoW to PoS. It will be interesting to see if/how this happens while still maintaining some level of decentralization.

Follow up: it was an April Fool's joke, that people took seriously (because, why wouldn't you?) and now Vitalik is saying perhaps we should take it seriously, even though it was supposed to be a joke? [facepalm]

Read pretty interesting thread this morning on Twitter1. Guy posts his MEW private key in a chat.2. $5k worth of Minerium in it, no ETH for gas.3. Half the people in the chat send gas to take it.4. Smart contract. Auto-sends the ETH to another address: keeps MNE in the account.

Southpaw wrote:Read pretty interesting thread this morning on Twitter1. Guy posts his MEW private key in a chat.2. $5k worth of Minerium in it, no ETH for gas.3. Half the people in the chat send gas to take it.4. Smart contract. Auto-sends the ETH to another address: keeps MNE in the account.

Apparently he is up to .7 ETH and climbing. Scammed some scammers

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